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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



has already been said, is the natural 

 leader in the reading- of the family, a 

 family paper will be the best— a paper, 

 that is, which is interesting- to old and 

 young alike, which they read and discuss 

 together, and which makes for real 

 companionship between all the members 

 of the family. No parent recognizing his 

 responsibility for the family reading, can 

 fail to see what opportunities for correct- 

 ing, stimulating and directing the family 

 taste are afforded by the constant, 

 familiar family discussion of what is read 

 in common by himself and his wife, his 

 daughter and his son. 



Of course, I do not need to say that the 

 Youth's Companion lives up to the high 

 standards set forth in the above. The 

 reading of the Companion, by a growing 

 child, will have an influence almost the 

 equal of parent or teacher. In fact, it 

 seems to me as though a child brought 

 up without the Companion has almost 

 been robbed of its birthright. If you 

 have children get the Companion for 

 them, and they and you will bless the 

 day that I urged you to this course. It is 

 only $1.75 a year; or I will club it with 

 the Review for only $2.50, but the sub- 

 sciption to the Companion must be a 

 a new subscriber. 



PRICE.5 OF HONE.Y. 



They are Really Higher than they were a 

 Dozen Years Ago. 



Much has been written to show how 

 prices of most food stuffs have advanced 

 in greater proportion than that of honey. 

 I think this is true to a certain extent, 

 but, perhaps, not so great as appears at 

 first thought. At the Albany convention 

 this question was discussed at great 

 length, and I think one of the most perti- 

 nent speeches was made by Mr. Wm. A. 

 Selser, when he said: 



I don't recall what was in the '^ee 

 papers as to quotations 23 years ago, 

 but I do know something which to me is 

 much better than that. 1 know actually 

 what honey brought 23 years ago, and 

 something about what it is bringing to- 

 day. In substantiation of that statement 

 I want to say that probably some of you 

 here know that it was not so many years 



ago when buckwheat honey in kegs 

 was offered in this State at 3|- 

 cents a pound. I was up in this State 

 some 20 years ago and bought a carload 

 of buckwheat honey at that price. To- 

 day that very same honey is sold right 

 in this State, within the last thirty days, 

 at seven cents a pound. That doesn't 

 look very much like a decline in prices. 

 1 also went to Wisconsin and Michigan 

 10 or 15 years ago, and I contracted 

 there in car lots for white clover honey in 

 barrels at 5yi cents f. o. b., and the 

 individual bee keepers through Wisconsin 

 were only getting 5, 4^4 and 43/ cents, 

 and they were very glad to have me con- 

 tract with them. This year that very 

 same honey in barrels has sold at those 

 same points for 8 and 8I2 cents a pound. 

 That doesn't look very much like a 

 decline. Sitting over there at the side is 

 a gentleman I have been dealing with for 

 many years for fancy white clover honey 

 in the comb, and he can remember not so 

 very many years ago when you could 

 get, right up in St. Lawrence County, 

 that honey for about 13 or 13 and a 

 fraction cents. New York people bought 

 it in car lots some 15 or 20 years ago. 

 This year that same honey is sold for 16 

 and 16^2 cents in car lots. Gentlemen, 

 you are very much mistaken when you 

 make the statement that bee supplies 

 have gone up and honey gone down. 

 That is positively incorrect. I think we 

 have never seen a time in a quarter of a 

 century that honey brought as good 

 prices as it is bringing today. 



There is still another point that ought 

 not to be overlooked, viz., that honey 

 production has increased from 5C to 100 

 per cent, in the last 15 years. We are 

 learning to keep more bees, and to pro- 

 duce more honey at less cost, and, best 

 of all, the demand has so improved that 

 honey can be sold for spot cash any day 

 day in the year. 



RLTAIL HONLY PACKAGES. 



Glass, Tin and Paper all have their 

 Advantages. 



When a bee keeper decides to put up 

 his extracted honey for the retail trade, 

 the first question that confronts him is: 

 "What shall the package be?" We may 

 talk all we may about the expense of 



